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Fun Partner Ropes Course Event That Builds Trust - Wild Woosey

Fun Partner Ropes Course Event That Builds Trust - Wild Woosey is a team reflection exercise for reflection and learning: it helps participants reflect on experience and turn observations into learning.

5 to 15 minutesTIME
Medium group (9-25), PairsGROUP SIZE
ActiveENERGY
In person, RemoteSETTING
High cognitive loadCOGNITIVE LOAD
Strengthens Learning Transfer This reflection and learning exercise strengthens Learning Transfer, one of the eight Gathering Effectiveness pillars.

How to run it

  1. In advance, assess your group’s physical abilities and spotting skills as required for this exercise.
  2. Objective : Challenge two people facing one another to work together and traverse the foot cables starting from the narrow end as far along the activity as possible, using each other for support.
  3. For safety purposes, the two participants must not interlock their fingers.
  4. Minimum of six spotters, positioned as guided by prescribed spotting protocols (go to Participant Responsibilities tab.)
  5. As in all traversing elements, spotters will move with the participant.
  6. When one or more of the participants step off or fall from the cables, invite them to have another attempt or swap with another pair.
  7. Allow as many attempts as possible within your allotted time frame.
  8. Wild Woosey Partner ropes course event that builds trust & teamwork.
  9. Set up as a partner ropes course event, Wild Woosey is a meaningful traversing challenge that tests communication skills and strengthens relationships.
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Minimum of six spotters, positioned as guided by prescribed spotting protocols (go to Participant Responsibilities tab.)

As in all traversing elements, spotters will move with the participant.

When one or more of the participants step off or fall from the cables, invite them to have another attempt or swap with another pair.

Set up as a partner ropes course event, Wild Woosey is a meaningful traversing challenge that tests communication skills and strengthens relationships.

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Adapt this exercise for my exact room. Exercise: Fun Partner Ropes Course Event That Builds Trust - Wild Woosey. Readiness: Publishable Draft. Core moves: Minimum of six spotters, positioned as guided by prescribed spotting protocols (go to Participant Responsibilities tab.); As in all traversing elements, spotters will move with the participant.; When one or more of the participants step off or fall from the cables, invite them to have another attempt or swap with another pair.; . Return a concise facilitator script with timing, wording, safety notes, and remote/in-person adjustments.

Origin unverified

  • Where we observed it: The strongest current observations come from Playmeo; aggregators are listed as additional observations, not origin proof. (1 source observed, including Playmeo.)
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  • No efficacy claims: appearing in this library is not a claim that the exercise is proven effective. Facilitator judgment and context decide whether it works for a given room.
  • Corrections: if you have evidence of an earlier or more accurate source, read our methodology and trust boundary and tell us.

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